Nevermind me. I was being stupid for the second part of that post. :smack:
I’m sorry, but I think the idea of a thousand or more raccoons living within a thousand miles of my place in Brooklyln is hysterical. I’m imagining them all right now. . . I think it’s great. I wish it were true.
That should have read a thousand yards, of course.
I think we would win. Handily. One question: What animals have the cognitive and communicational faculties to organize an effective assault? Answer: us. Many in the pro-animal crowd are assuming that animals are basically as smart as we are. They’re not. Anything capable of any real thought could be defeated with sturdy walls and a roof, technology we’ve had for thousands of years. Nothing else will change very much. The principle problem we’ll be facing is weapons distribution. Once we get forces prepared, it’s all over.
Exactly, if they get organized. But the situation doesn’t postulate massive increases in insect intelligence. How many insects (or arachnids, etc) are even capable of telling the difference between a human and a duck (I suppose they might check if the quacks echo or not 
)? If they can’t do that, then what are we worried about?
I don’t think cooperation is quite the right word to describe what’s happening, though I’m in no way qualified to give a real analysis. What’s happening is more like chaos, kept in equilibrium by a variety of forces. The things living inside us are already acting 100% selfishly, and I strongly doubt that they can even conceive of the concept of going on strike. Advantage: us.
Nope, we’d still have to worry about Nazi groundhogs. :eek:
I can’t believe no one made any mention to Animal Farm! :eek:
OH NO! Not these guys again!. Maybe we should lure them out, freeze them and launch them into space with a giant PVC canon? Or does that only work with goats? Well either way that’ll be one less mammal to worry about.
What about today’s super animals. . .like the flying squirrel, and the electric eel?
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